Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre.
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.
